Decreased muscle sympathetic nerve activity does not explain increased vascular conductance during contralateral isometric exercise in humans

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 377-382

  Fisher, James P ^a   Sander, Mikael ^b   MacDonald, Ian ^c   White, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONDUCTANCE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; LEG EXERCISE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS MUSCLE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASCULAR CONDUCTANCE;

EID: 18844443753     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2004.028761     Document Type: Article

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